RE: work files in qtemp

As others have said, anything in QTEMP goes bye-bye when the job ends. You
don't have to do any cleanup. Another advantage is that more than one user
can run the same program without clashing with each other. Each instance on
QTEMP is unique to the job that it belongs to.

For us, QTEMP is the first library in the library list, however, don't
assume that - do the override in the calling CL anyway. You never know who
will be changing the library list around. Personally, I like to practice
"bulletproof" programming - meaning that I try and anticipate as much as I
can and condition for it.

And just in case the program is run interactively, and not in batch, I
always attempt to clear the file first. I do a MONMSG right after that to
create the file if it doesn't exist (with CRTDUPOBJ).


Francis Lapeyre
IS Dept. Programmer/Analyst
Stewart Enterprises, Inc.



-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Douglas W. Palme
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:42 AM
To: RPG Group
Subject: work files in qtemp

I have been working on a program that will reuqire me to use some sort of
temporary hold file, a friend suggested that I use a work file in qtemp for
the processing of the data...however, I have never used work files before,
let alone in qtemp.

Should I just create the file in my library and then copy it to the qtemp
directory and then process the data deleting the file once I am done? Any
other suggestions would be appreciated.

Douglas

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